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...that they will contract from constant exposure to asbestos, exposure that as urban dwellers they cannot now avoid. This fatal growth, called mesothelioma, can develop twenty to forty years after its victims begin to inhale the asbestos fiber. The tumor attacks the pleura and peritonium--the membrane sacks that surround the lung and abdominal cavities--and can grow whether or not the exposure continues. Most alarming of all, the number of asbestos fibers in the air around us increases every year...
Still his autobiography, even up to the time of his appointment to the court where this volume stops, often seems extraordinary enough to match many of the stories that surround the forging of America's great men. In 1904 Douglas' minister father died after having moved the family to a tiny wilderness parish in the state of Washington. At the graveside, the grieving five-year-old lad felt drawn to the towering Mount Adams-"a friend, a force for me to tie to, a symbol of stability and strength." Afflicted with puny legs as a result of polio...
...mime" says Marceau, "is the portrayal of the human being in its most secret yearnings. By identifying itself with the elements which surround us, the art of the mime makes visible the invisible and concrete the abstract." Halfway between dancing and the theater, mime is an art of illusion relying on Man's fundamental and oldest method of communication. The raw material used--the human being himself--is never confined by objects and leaps speechlessly over the wall of language, the deceptions of words. Reaching out towards an all-embracing definition of the human being, mime is universal...
...four-year bondage to this corporation that some member of it's working was bold enough to call a spade a spade. I am referring to the most accurate depiction of the Harvard alienation-complex by Donald Hermann in The Crimson of March 19, 1974. The unfortunate circumstances which surround the Harvard and Radcliffe students are as integrated as the corporate bureaucracy could possibly create: Questions (specifically in Chem 20) are a mark of the student's stupidity, only stylized rhetoric affirming the bias of course administrations is acceptable as independent thought, and students grab ahold of Harvard's "brand...
...part one of The New York Time's review of "Working," which appeared March 21, Anatole Broyard wrote: "This is the era of sentimental sociology, the apocalypse of the ordinary man. You would think they had never met one before, the way some social scientists surround him with astonishment...